GPU Cryptocurrency Mining - MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X Card

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X GPU is the most profitable GPU for mining cryptocurrency at this time.

I bought this graphics card in July after my son, an avid gamer, convinced me that it would "pay for itself in a few weeks". At the time the card was rated by Whattomine.com to be generating a daily profit of over $8. With a ROI of only 90 days it seemed like a good idea. As an added bonus, I got his old GTX 970 GPU card that I was able to put in a dedicated mining computer and mine with full time.

The MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Gaming X card uses the Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 Ti graphic processor chip and comes with an incredible 11GB of GDDR5X memory. It is packed with 3584 Cuda cores and a core clock speed of 1569 Mhz. There are two 8 pin 12V power connectors, so you need at least a 500 watt power supply to run this card. The 1080 Ti is based on the new Pascal architecture, which means it delivers a lot of power for the amount of energy consumed, an extremely important feature in cryptocurrency mining.

To see how much money you can make mining different coins with this GPU, go to Whattomine.com and select the 1080 Ti card and enter your electricity rate. Since this card is in my son's computer sitting in his dorm room currently, the electricity cost is $0. Which is nice.

Whattomine will then display the most profitable coins to mine. As shown below, Monacoin, is currently the most profitable followed by Zcash.

Below is a screen shot showing this card mining Zcash using EWBF's CUDA Zcash miner.

As you can see, this card mines at a significantly higher rate than Whattomine has listed as the predefined rates. That's because the Gaming X Edition has a higher Core and Boost clock rate than other versions of 1080Ti cards. This gives it approximately 15% better hash rate when mining Equihash algorithm coins like Zcash. When I plug in the actual hash rate into Whattomine, I get the profitability list below.

So this card really does well mining Equihash coins and now we see that Zcash is the most profitable followed by several other Equihash based coins.

Until next time...